It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

There is no sin except stupidity.

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

We moralize among ruins.

Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

I’ve been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don’t know how much experience you’ve had with contemporary Hebrew. It’s quite difficult.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

The lie is a condition of life.

I want to – more than anything – to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That’s what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

I’ve learned never to say never.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.